Excuse the title but it appears one bunch of militants People front of Gaza (Hamas) and the Gazan Peoples Front (Jund Ansar Allah) have decided to knock ten shades of sh#t out of each other..... in a mosque of all places.

Wonder is this Hamas wanting to bank some credits with the Israeli's and say "look were though on the badder baddies" or did someone in GPF call someone in Hamas's mother fat? Either which way... one hell of a bloodsport.

Excuse the title but it appears one bunch of militants People front of Gaza (Hamas) and the Gazan Peoples Front (Jund Ansar Allah) have decided to knock ten shades of sh#t out of each other..... in a mosque of all places.
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Rather odd translation of Jund Ansar Allah. The Jerusalem Post has it as "Soldiers of the Companions of God".

Hamas reckons they were armed by Fatah. Would not surprise me.

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Eyewitnesses said the clashes began almost immediately after Friday prayers at the Ibn Taymiyeh Mosque in the Brazil suburb of Rafah. They said the warring parties used automatic rifles and mortars during the confrontation, which ended early on Saturday.

They said the leader of Jund Ansar Allah and about 100 of his armed followers surprised worshipers by announcing the creation of an Islamic emirate in the Gaza Strip headed by Mousa, an Egyptian-educated physician-turned-cleric.

Addressing the crowd, Mousa launched a scathing attack on Hamas, accusing it of failing to enforce Islamic law, Shari'a, in the Strip, and of acting like a "secular government."

He also announced his opposition to attempts by Hamas to "liberate" the mosque from the hands of Jund Ansar Allah and said his men would not hesitate to use force to thwart the plan.

When dozens of Hamas militiamen and policemen surrounded the mosque, demanding that Mousa and his followers surrender, they were met with gunfire from inside the building, said Ihab al-Ghissin, spokesman for the Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry.
Ghissin said that at one stage several gunmen holed up inside the mosque surrendered and handed their weapons over to Hamas. He accused the group and its leaders of trying to spread "weird and dangerous" ideas.
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The Saudis have been backing such folk all over the Levant. The gradations of beardie lunacy are endless.

No surprise. Islam is currently having its equivalent of the Thirty Years War which trashed Europe when Martin Luther told the Catholic Church to piss off. When the dust from that settled, the relatively 'moderate' Protestants had been eclipsed by ever-madder groups, until the general population got fed up with the whole business and started the Age of Reason.

The problem is that if this is Islams 30 Year War, it still has a good 20 years of biting its neighbours to go...

No surprise. Islam is currently having its equivalent of the Thirty Years War which trashed Europe when Martin Luther told the Catholic Church to piss off. When the dust from that settled, the relatively 'moderate' Protestants had been eclipsed by ever-madder groups, until the general population got fed up with the whole business and started the Age of Reason.

The problem is that if this is Islams 30 Year War, it still has a good 20 years of biting its neighbours to go...

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There are over an billion and a half Muslims. Of that maybe 10% even notice the marginal mainly nationalist ructions we are peripherally involved with. To compare this with the crazed occasionally genocidal religious fanaticism that killed off a third of the Germanic peoples is a stretch.

No surprise. Islam is currently having its equivalent of the Thirty Years War which trashed Europe when Martin Luther told the Catholic Church to piss off. When the dust from that settled, the relatively 'moderate' Protestants had been eclipsed by ever-madder groups, until the general population got fed up with the whole business and started the Age of Reason.

The problem is that if this is Islams 30 Year War, it still has a good 20 years of biting its neighbours to go...

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There are over an billion and a half Muslims. Of that maybe 10% even notice the marginal mainly nationalist ructions we are peripherally involved with. To compare this with the crazed occasionally genocidal religious fanaticism that killed off a third of the Germanic peoples is a stretch.

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On the global scale, the 'rest of the world' team (that's us, folks) currently has the role of the then-superpower Ottoman Empire, which generally stood well back and let the loony Christians butcher each other, whilst playing various factions off against each other. Sound familiar? The misfortune of Germany then was to be the cockpit in which everyone else settled their problems. All we have done is move the theatre of ops to the Middle East. Maybe only 10% of the Muslims pay attention to the foaming madmen, but as you point out, even 10% is a hell of a lot of nutters, and even if you personally don't pay attention, getting caught up in the crossfire kills you just as dead as if you are a true believer.